Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-29
BEHIND THE COUNTER.
Its Folly Tor Anybody in This Word
10 Wait for Something to Turn
Up--It VIII Turn Down.
TIE Law OF Thrift is as IneXOrabte as
tb, Law Of she Tidss-Christian-
ilY 70 DjFec: Human Ambition.
There arc Evils Abroad which Must he
Eun5ed Down and Dragged Out into
tee MONDAY Light.


special to tie Gazette.
PRooKLYN, n Y April 24-At the Tab
ern.cie this morning, the pastor, Rev. I.
Dewitt Talmage, D. d, read from the
Book of Proverbs some lessons about
honest thrift. He then gave out the hymn
beginning:
The strife viii not be long
This day of the noise of battle,
The next the victor's song"
The boy choir chanted an opening and
closing selection. DR.. Tllmage's dis
course was entitled 'sBrhind the Counter;
or. Trials and Encoursgements Of sales
ngu ana Sales yumen." He took the TWO
following passages as his text: land
certain wrmaD named Lydia, seller OF
purple, Of the city Of TIL atira, W1lch
worsalpsd God, heard Us; whose heart
the Lord cleugd Acts xvi. IA. "Seest
thou q man Giiigent IN his business? he
szau stand before kings. "-Proverbs
xxi. %. The preacher said:
The frst passage introduces to you
I,T0ia. Christian merChantess. Her
business IS to deal in purple cloths or
silks. She is no. gIggling nOnentlty, put
q 0Tacticg. woman, not ashamed TO work
for her living All the other women Of Phil
ippi and Thfatira have been forgotten;
but God has made immortal in our text,
lydia. the Christian saIeSWCman.
The other text shows you a man with
head. and hand, and heart, and foot all
busy toiling On Up until he gains
Drfucely success. 'Seest thou man oil
iIgpt IL his business? be shall stand be-
fore KINGS " Great encouragement IN these
two passages for men and women VINO
will be busy, but 10 sOlsCe for those
who are waiting for good luck TO show
them. a. The foot Of the rainbow, casKet
Of buried gold. It is folly for anybody IN
this worlI TO wait Tor something TO turn
I'D. l. will turn down. The law OF
thrift y as ineX9rable IS the law OF the
tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave
her arm in that direction until castles
and palaces come; but she VIII, alter g
white. fuv-rt the same wand, and all the
spl.n6ars VII vanish into thin air. There
are certNiu STYLES # behavior which lead
to usefulness honor and permanent sue
cess. and there ar certain styles OF be-
bavi0~ which lead to dust, dishOnOr and
moral default l would like to fire the
ambition Of young people. l nave no
svmpsthv with those who would prepare
Young folks for life by whiltling down
their expectations. That man or woman
will be worth nothing TO church or state
who begins life cOWed down. The BUS
mess Of Christianity is not to quench bal
20 direct human AMBITION Therefore II
is thai | come out this morning and uttel
words of encouragement to those VINO
are occupied as clerks in stores enC
shops,aud banking houses of the country
You say: "WGy select one class, anc
talk to one specially this mOrning?" Fol
the same reason that surgeon does no
omen me door of a hospital and throw II
a busbel Of prescriptions, saying: Come
now, and get your medicine" He first
feels the pulse, watches the symptoms
ana then prescribes for that particular
case. So to-day must be specific. TIT
people in this audience who are clerks
are not an exceptional class. They be
long TO 8 great company Of tens Of thous
ands who are in thiS country, amid CIR
cumstqnces which viii either make o
hresk them fer time and for eternity.
should be very slow 10 acknowledge tina
the clerks. male and female, or other cities
are any more honest or faithful than tn
clerk, of our own city. Many Of theS
peopIe nave already achieved Christian
menIIness and q Christian WOmeulInes
which VIII be their passport TO any pos
fiou. asve seen their trials. l hav
watched their perpieXities. There ar
evils abroad which need TO be haunte
down, and dragged cut into the noondS
.iEDt.
In tie first place, I counsel clerks I
remember tnat for the most part lneI
clerkship is only g school from which the
are to he graduated, I takes about elgr
wears 10 get one If the lesrned professor
Il takes about eight years to get TO be
merchant. Some OF you will De clerk
ell YOUR lives, hut the vast majority
Won are only in q transient position
After swhi,e, some December day, tn
beqd men Of the firm Will call you into th
hack Office, ana they VIII say to you
"Now, YOU hsye done well by Us; we 81
going to do well by you. We invite yo
TO have an interest in our concern" YO
will bnyv TO that ediCt very gracefully
Getting into a street car { 90 home, q
old cOnrade will meet you and say
"Whst makes you look so happy II
night?". co." you will say, "nothin!
nothing" But in few days your nam
will blossom on the sign. Either IN u
store or bank where you are now, or
some other store or bank, you will take
higher position than that which you no
occupy. So feel to-day that am stsn'
ing before people who will yet nave the
hand on the helm of the worlds con
merce, and you will turn it this way {
that; now clerks, but to be bankers, in
porters, insurance company director
: shippers, contractors, superintendent I
railroads - YOUR voice mighty sc
& y edo, standing foremost in Il
a. financial and religious Ell
casv of the day. Fo
esuo who are in the profession